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Napster continued from page 1 MP3 provider. “We don’t disagree with what they are trying to accomplish,” Grier said, “but with the way they want to go about it." According to Grier, the Univer sity does not seem to he in a po sition where it will soon see a lawsuit. “I am pretty comfortable with our legal position,” she said. “We don’t feel we have taken a risky position, especially since a num ber of other universities have also taken this position.” Some universities have al ready decided not to comply with the request to ban Napster. In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, seven univer sities, including the Georgia In stitute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles, the Univer sity of Michigan and the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, stated they would not bow to the attorney’s requests. A number of students at the University agree with the institu tions that refuse to block Napster. “I hope the University doesn’t give in to the pressure from the attorney,” Jessie Kirk, a sopho more journalism major, said. “It seems like if they block it there will just be another program on its heels.” Other students agreed. “I don’t think it is fair [to block access],” Amy Shearer, a sopho more business major, said. “Col lege students don’t have the money to go out and buy music. What I do is sample a few of the songs from an artist and then if I like the CD I go out and buy it.” While the University will not block Napster from its servers, officials said they are still con cerned with students illegally downloading copyrighted mate rial. The University’s proper In ternet guidelines are outlined in detail in the University’s accept able use policies. “All members of the University of Oregon community should famil iarize themselves with the Uni versity’s acceptable use policy,” said Jon Miyake, acceptable use policy officer. As of spring 2000, the Univer sity’s position on the Napster is sue is to “closely monitor Nap ster usage” and “continue to cooperate fully with law en forcement authorities when copyright infringements are re ported,” according to the Uni versity’s spring 2000 computing news Web site. Penalties for violating the ac ceptable use policy or down loading illegal copyrighted mate rial could result in civil or criminal action or University sanctions. For more information or ques tions about the appropriate use of computer programs on cam pus go to http://cc.uoregon.edu/docs/ac ceptableuse.html. WRC continued from page 1 would be difficult for him to fulfill his role under the rules of the House [of Representatives], which would prevent him from using congressional staff,” Weiss said. “And when Congressman Miller gets involved in something, he likes to really get involved.” Shortly after Miller’s resigna tion, the WRC’s Advisory Council elected Mark Barenber. a professor at Columbia University’s law school, to fill his seat. Kahle said as a result of limited membership and funds, governing hoard members have realized that there probably won’t be funding for on-the-spot surprise monitor ing. Instead, the WRC plans to gather complaints from workers, which will then be investigated by non-governmental organizations. “The students who are partici pating have very admirable ideas,” Kahle said. “I think they are mak ing progress, but slowly.” He also said although some stu dent protesters at the University demanded that the University re frain from joining the Fair Labor Association, another labor-moni toring group that, unlike the WRC, is industry-driven, WRC board members took no stance on that is sue. “They explicitly said the WRC has no position on whether people should join the FLA,” he said. The University joined the FLA shortly before the beginning of fall term. Kahle added that board mem bers, although still opposed to in dustry participation on the WRC’s board, discussed developing processes for working on resolving problems with labor conditions. After all. Kahle said, problems cannot be fixed without incorpo rating factory representatives. But while the WRC’s board is Thestudenetswho are participating have very admitalbe ideas. I think they are making progress, but slowly. Lynn Kahle professor, Marketing working on finding ways to incor porate industry cooperation into the WRC’s monitoring processes, McDonald said he came away from Tuesday’s meeting with the impression that industry represen tation on the group’s board is out of the question. “It’s my view... that the issue of corporate participation on the board is dead in the water,” Mc Donald said. “On the other hand, there seemed to be a somewhat more conciliatory tone about ways to engage licensees.” The lack of industry representa tion on the WRC was one of the concerns University officials voiced when signing on to the group in April, after students staged protests and camped out side Johnson Hall for days, and the University Senate recommended that the University join the organ ization. New concerns raised by some member universities involve insur ance and liability issues, McDon ald said. Initially the WRC had been founded on the idea that stu dents from member universities would conduct some of the moni toring, information gathering and reporting abroad. However, McDonald said whether the universities or the WRC will be responsible for pro viding insurance, coping with is sues of liability and possible defamation, and training students for accurate information-gathering remains to be decided. Many of these issues go back to money, which universities still haven’t been able to contribute be cause of the WRC’s lack of official status and a bank account, he said. “You’re going to need a lot of members if you are going to be able to fund some of those things,” Mct Donald said. He said the group will have to tackle one issue at a time and will have to take up the ratification of bylaws again once it gains its offi cial status. 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